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hedges comments on Neo-reactionaries, why are you neo-reactionary? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: hedges 19 November 2014 09:52:52AM 4 points [-]

In these discussions, I often find myself writing a long text describing my beliefs and why I am not interested in defending or spreading them. At that point, I usually stop writing and start over, like I did now.

I'm willing to label myself as neoreactionary because neoreaction better describes our current society than leftism. In a future world I might look at neoreaction as the most accurate description of a certain time period. Neoreactionary beliefs could be easily rendered irrelevant with transhumanist advances.

The reason I value neoreaction is because it gives me – in my personal life – an edge. This is also the reason why I am not interested in defending or spreading many neoreactionary beliefs.

Beliefs I've developed that are common in neoreaction are by far the ones that have contributed the most to my personal happiness.

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 19 November 2014 11:04:18AM *  8 points [-]

The reason I value neoreaction is because it gives me – in my personal life – an edge. This is also the reason why I am not interested in defending or spreading many neoreactionary beliefs.

Unless you want an edge over other LWers, would you mind elaborating which beliefs have benefited you and in what way?